Vehicle-seat



(No Model) s. O'BRIEN. VEHICLE SEAT;

No. 490,919. I Patented Jan.,31, 189s.

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WILLIAM S. OBRIEN, OF LAFAYETTE, INDIANA.

VEHICLE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,919, dated January31, 1893.

Application filed October 20, 1892. Serial No. 449,461. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM S. OBRIEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lafayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seats for WheeledVehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the an nexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvemen ts-incarriages and wagons and more particularly to the seats thereof and ithas for its objects among others to provide a simple and inexpensiveseat which shall be more comfortable than old forms and which will takeup the jar incident to sudden startingof the horse or passing overunevenground. I also provide a detachable foot rest supported from the seat.This foot-rest can be employed either inside the body of the wagon oroutside, or when the body is filled the foot-rest can be taken off.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appearand the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by theappended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portionof a wagon body equipped with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal section through the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in both of the views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates thewagon body the front or dash a of which is made shallow as seen so as toprovide for more readily getting in and out.

B is the seat which consists of the bottom I), the back 0 and endsdwhich may be of any well known or approved form of construction. Theseat may be also provided with any style of lazy back e of any suitablematerial and with or without the arm rails O, which latter are securedin position in any desired manspring movement of the foot-rest.

ner. The lazy back is shown as held at the proper place by the verticalrods f which are seated therein and in the upper edge of the back a. Theends may be braced by brace irons g at the forward end as seen in Fig.1.

To the under side of the bottom of the seat near each end is secured abar or cleat D which is provided upon its under face with a roundedcavity h into which fits and is secured the corresponding curved portione of the upper half of the spring F, the lower half being ofcorresponding reverse shape and the two portions hinged at their ends asseen at f. The lower half of the spring has a downwardly-curved centralportion 21 whichfits and is secured in a curved depression j in a bar Gin vertical line with the bar D as seen best in Fig. 2. To each bar G issecured near each end a substantially Z-shaped metal plate H one end ofwhich embraces the bar and its vertical portion is secured to the barwhile its other end, turned in the opposite direction, is designed toengage over the upper edge of the side of the body of the wagon as seenbest in Fig. 1.

Plates J may be employed upon the upper face of the bottom of the seatas seen in Fig. 1 to receive the bolts or other means 70 employed forsecuring the bars D to the under side of the seat.

In practice the seat is supported upon the body of the wagon by theplates H hooked over the upper edges of the sides as shown; it may beeasily moved forward or back as desired, and the seat is free to playbetween the sides and to rock back and forth as much as necessary.

L is a foot-rest consisting of aboard or plate secured to the lowerhorizontal portions of the Z-shaped bars M; the upper horizontalportions of said arms are designed to be adjustably and detachablysupported and held in loops or eyes or analogous devices m on the underside of the bottom of the seat as seen in Fig. 2. These bars arepreferably made of spring metal so as to permit of the desired Thisfootrest can be quickly and easily placed in position or removed; it canbe adjusted to be arranged either within the body of the wagon oroutside as may be desired. It is of such a length as to fit within thebody as seen in Fig. 1. The resiliency of the foot-rest in connectionwith the spring of the seat makes a Very easy riding and comfortableseat.

What I claim as new is;

1. The combination with a Wagon body, of a spring-supported seat mountedto move vertically between the sides of the body, and a detachable andadjustable foot-rest supported from the seat and arranged between thesides of the body, as set forth.

2. The combination with the seat, of the bars upon the under sidethereof, the bars

